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Achim Clemens
piano
Tonhalle Düsseldorf 2006-2007


Chopin
Polonaise As-Dur, op.53
(Tonhalle Düsseldorf 23.9.2007)





Chopin
Nocturne f-moll, op.55 Nr.1
(Tonhalle Düsseldorf 23.9.2007)





Rachmaninoff
Moment Musical in b minor, Op.16 No.3
(Tonhalle Düsseldorf September 2007)





Rachmaninoff
Prélude in g sharp minor, Op.32 No.12
(Live (Encore) London, St.James's, August 2012)





Manuel de Falla
Ritual Fire Dance





Manuel de Falla
Dance of the miller





Skrjabin
Etude cis-moll, op.2 Nr.1
(Tonhalle Düsseldorf 10.9.2006)







Peter Feuchtwanger // www.peter-feuchtwanger.de
Compositions for Piano Vol. 1 // www.croco-deal.de
Studies in Eastern Idiom
Edited by Achim Clemens

Peter Feuchtwanger, who was born in Munich and lives in London, is one of the most highly acclaimed piano teachers of our time. He had also become known as a composer who was held in high esteem internationally by the time he won first prize for composition at the Viotti Competition (in Italy) for his "Variations on an Eastern Folk Tune". There is great appreciation for his works, which are influenced by traditional forms of Eastern music, because of their special, very personal tonal idiom.

Three of Peter Feuchtwanger's best known pieces have now been published in Volume 1 of his Compositions for Piano. Tariqa I and Tariqa II are sound studies based on preludes in Persian or Arabic music. Dhun is a Råga Tilang in a northern Indian idiom.

Peter Feuchtwanger transforms the sound of a concert piano into that of a Persian santur, an Arab Qånun or an Indian sitar without adapting the piano, but simply through the precise coordination of his fingering and pedal technique.

This exceptional technique for creating sound prompted the composer to include an explanatory DVD to accompany the music. It includes complete performances of the three studies played by Achim Clemens, as well as 84 clips with detailed recordings of the places which require particular explanation. As a bonus, there is also a short composition by Peter Feuchtwanger, Råga Bhatiåli, to watch, performed by the composer.




Achim Clemens
Romantic Piano Transcriptions


Bach/Brahms
Chaconne in D minor
(from Partita no. 2 for Solo Violin BMV 1004)
for the left hand

  Händel/Kempff
Minuet in G minor
(HWV 434 no. 1)

  Gluck/Kempff
Orpheus Lament/Orpheus Klage and
Dance of the Blessed Spirits/Regeln der seligen Geister
from Gluck
s opera Orfeo

Weber/Köhler
„Melody from Weber ' s Freischütz“
(from ‚School for the Left hand‘, op. 302)


Mendelssohn/Liszt
„On the Wings of Song“/„Auf den Flügeln des Gesanges“



Chopin/Godowsky
Etude op. 10 no.3 for the left hand
(no.5 in D-flat major, from, 53 Studies on Chopin’s Etudes‘)


Wagner/Liszt
Wolfram’s Romance „O du mein holder Abendstern“
(from the opera ‚Tannhäuser‘, Act 3)


J. Strauss II/Schütt
Waltz from „Die Fledermaus“
Concert-Paraphrase


R. Strauss/Gieseking
„Winterweihe“, op. 48 no. 4


Morton Gould
Boogie Woogie Etude